Good news! More than 2 years after the initial request, Mozilla has finally decided to implement the Google Chrome like closing tab behavior.

What’s the big deal?
When you close a tab in Google Chrome, they are not immediately resized. As a result, you can instantly close another one without moving your mouse cursor. Google’s browser will only resize tabs when your mouse cursor is outside the tab panel or is there for a long time (which is genius).

However, when it comes to Firefox, it automatically resizes tabs right after you close one and therefore, user must move the mouse cursor in order to close another one.

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come on firefox work on something else really lets talk about how crappy firefox 4 is from that stupid UI you are chrome copy cats and addons dont even work as good as 3.6 i had to downgrade back down really guys firefox 4=WORST LET DOWN EVER !!

Oh stop your with damn your copy cat whining, all browsers copy each other. as for the Addons not working it’s not Mozilla damn fault, its the extension authors that got to make it work with FF4. if the extension work good in 3.6, then the extension should just work as good in FF4. Complain to Extensions Authors for whatever problems your having instead of whining here.

Oh stop your with damn your copy cat whining, all browsers copy each other. as for the Addons not working it’s not Mozilla damn fault, its the extension authors that got to make it work with FF4. if the extension work good in 3.6, then the extension should just work as good in FF4. Complain to Extensions Authors for whatever problems your having instead of whining here.

What was overlooked in those two years was the fact that this should be a user preference. If you prefer to have as much of the tab title on your screen at all times, then this “feature” becomes a bug if hard-coded to not immediately resize.

I find this extremely annoying too. I have my minimum tab width set to 1 and animation disabled. Yet when I close tabs, this resizing is animated. I wouldn’t mind it so much if it wasn’t animated, so how do I disable the animation, or failing that, disable it altogether?